I am wanting to create a "My Favorites" Form to store the top 10 forms/reports the users uses the most.
I have got 10 fields in each users record that stores the name of the form
I made a form with the following;10 command buttons, labels
The labels are bound to the users record which shows what the name of the form/report is.
How do I take the labels caption and open the form?
Davids Learning
Imports System.Reflection
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim frmname As String = "Form1"
Dim asm As Assembly = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly
Dim asmname As String = asm.GetName().Name
Dim frm As Form = CType(asm.CreateInstance(asmname + "." + frmname), Form)
frm.Show()
End Sub
End Class
can you clarify one assembly?
Still new to this!
All of the strings that are in the labels text will be the forms name, like
if label1's text has "registration"
there will be a form that is called "registration"
Do I need to include the .vb as seen in the solutions explorer at the end of the string?
Davids Learning
way this code works is that it uses reflection to find the type for the
form you want to create. A type is stored in an assembly.
I'm using Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly to find the assembly in which
the currently executing code (Button1_Click) is defined. As long
as that assembly also contains the form, it will work without
problems. If you put forms in other assemblies, you'll have a
much tougher time finding them back. The best thing to do in that
case is not just store the form name but also the assembly name (like
"ClassLibrary1.Form2").
